Re: RFE UTF-EBCDIC

date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:54:57 +0100
from: Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Therefore I have posted an RFE to IBM to please implement UTF-EBCDIC as an
alternative CCSID. UTF-EBCDIC is basically UTF-8 but where UTF-8 has ASCII
as the base charset, then UTF-EBCDIC will have EBCDIC. This means the
national chars like ?????? wil occupy two bytes each and abcABC will occupy
one byte each. Perhaps we need to extend some columns, but that is a much
simpler task than converting the entire system to UNICODE.

This will let the database and programs run unchanged and give the client
the option to set this CCSID at system level. Open source and spring boot (
Java microservices) will convert from UTF-EBCDIC to UNICODE and/or UTF-8 on
the fly. This will let the transformation process focus on applications and
not CCSID and eventually bring the IBM i platform in position in the global
infrastructure while dealing with legacy application.

So please, gentlemen, please go and vote for this RFE so we can end this
discussion once and for all.


https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=138076

Read more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC